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Ms. Smith from Tarzana, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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A Wonderful Way To Teach The Standards!

My students need 35 copies of the novel Wonder.

  • $480 goal

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My Students

We are a unique 4-12 span school which offers a seamless educational experience to a diverse student body in a safe environment. Centers for Enriched Studies emphasize creative/critical thinking in all disciplines. Students are assigned to classes according to academic needs and interests. Each Language Arts class consists of gifted/high achieving, average, lower achieving, and special education students. We are a Title 1 school. A majority of our students travel by bus to and from our school, as many of them live outside a 2-mile radius from the school. The student body is integrated with a 60% combined minority and 40% Anglo student population.

My Project

This year my fifth grade English students will read the novel "Wonder", the book that inspired the Choose Kind movement. The themes in this novel involve being kind to others, accepting others' differences, and learning to be yourself. This story is about Auggie Pullman, a boy who was born with craniofacial abnormalities, who was homeschooled for most of his life. Auggie will be attending a private school for the first time, and my students will learn the truth of Auggie's journey and what it means to them as individuals. Each section of the novel is told through the point of view of a different character, which helps readers better understand the choices made by some of the characters.

Ms. Smith Soces Magnet School Grades 3-5

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Tarzana, CA View local requests

More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

35 students impacted 11donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Wonder • Amazon Business $9.75 35 $341.25

Materials cost

$341.25

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $31.22

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.12

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$407.59

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$71.93

Total project goal

$479.52

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $479.52

10 Donors

-$444.52

Donations toward project cost

-$377.84

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$66.68

match offer

-$35.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$29.75

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$5.25

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 $0.00

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